About the GNU Press

GNU Documentation is unique because of our attitude towards it — we believe the reader should be free to copy and redistribute it, just like our software.

Our original mission was just printing manuals of GNU software
programs. We are now expanding into the fields of general computer
science and computer science philosophy as well. Our new
“Philosophy of Software Freedom” series will examine the
free software philosophy from a number of different angles, such as
law, ethics, and business. We hope to bring the discussion into the
mainstream, and show how the free software philosophy can be applied
to seemingly unrelated fields, such as classical musical composition
and art.